STUDY ON GENDER DIFFERENCE IN SUICIDAL IDEATION AMONG ADOLESCENTS
Keywords:
Gender Difference, Suicidal, Adolescents, World Health OrganizationAbstract
The teenage years are challenging for teens and their parents. Adolescents face many new pressures and may not always react in the healthiest ways to the problems they encounter. Social difficulties, stress, financial crisis, academic pressures, and other concerns facing teens may contribute to suicidal ideation. The World health organization has acknowledged that suicidal behavior is a major public health problem in every country. Suicide rates gradually increasing in India. So, this study aims to find out gender difference between suicidal ideation among adolescents. Total 50 sample were selected for this study and suicidal ideation scale was used for this study. The study results revealed that there were significant differences between boys and girls with respect to suicidal ideation. Girls scored high mean score when compare to boys. It can be conclude that external and internal factors make them to more vulnerable to have suicidal thoughts in adolescents.
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